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In ‘Dark Energy,’ Cosmic Humility

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It is a mark of how distasteful scientists find that prospect—which would mean that their "why?" brings the answer "just because"—that they are considering a "Twilight Zone" alternative. Maybe the reason the universe is accelerating—the observation that led astronomers to infer the existence of dark energy 10 years ago—is not that something is pushing it apart. Maybe gravity is leaking out. That would remove the brakes on the cosmic expansion, letting it accelerate just as those 1997 supernova studies showed. If gravity leaked anywhere within the universe it would still make itself felt, so that leaves undetected hidden dimensions, a whole other space-time we never suspected and might never detect. Humbling indeed.

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Posted By: johndalmas @ 03/26/2008 8:17:29 PM

I love it! I have no problem with apparent inconsistencies between science and religion-- both exist--but science does seem to provide reality with apparent structure, and pry-points, so to speak, for evaluating and expanding our concepts. Which by the nature of our species, will be explored. However, reality may be a lot "finer grained" than we know, and we tailless primates may (let's hope not, but may) lack the equipment to figure it out.
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Posted By: budgetwizard @ 03/25/2008 6:13:45 AM

what is the weight of a galactic shadow? How much does one galactic particle induce/reduce/excite another galactic particle of differing event horizons? If information cannot travel faster than the speed of light, then surely there is a supreme being of this truth. I believe this is the pointlessness of asking the pointless. Unfortunately modern science implies that all can be reduced, except the reducer??? I wonder.
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Posted By: MOCFUJITA @ 01/17/2008 8:52:50 AM

The Law of Universal Gravitation and Separation

First of all, I would like to present this fundamental working hypothesis. It is the universal force which unifies gravity and separator into one. No one ever knows about the separator force. So now, I give a definition of the law of universal separation at first.

Fs = - Sp Ea Eb / r^2 F ; the separation force
Ea ; Energy which belongs to the point a
Eb ; Energy which belongs to the point b
r ; the distance between a and b
Sp ; the separation constant
This force will not be detected on the Earth. It can be negligible even in the solar system. But it will work in the galactic scale.
Next step is to unify Gravitation and Separation into one law.

Fg = G Ma Mb / r^2 -----------------Then,
Fg+s = G Ma Mb / r^2 - Sp Ea Eb / r^2

And assume that Sp = G / c^4, because E = mc^2.

Fg+s = G Ma Mb / r^2 - (G / c^4) Ea Eb / r^2

One step forward by using the complex number formula.

F = G ( Ma + i Ea / c^2 ) ( Mb + i Eb / c^2 ) / r^2
F = G Ma Mb / r^ - (G / c^4) Ea Eb / r^2 + i ( G Ea Mb / ( r^2 c^2 ) + G Ma Eb / ( r^2 c^2 ))
The real part is Re( F ) = Fg+s, but I don't know how to deal with the imaginary part ; Im( F ) = G Ea Mb / ( r^2 c^2 ) + G Ma Eb / ( r^2 c^2 ).

So an existing substance is to be described as S = M + i E / c^2 .
In a certain independent area, if M + E / c^2 = constant ( in other words when M decreases by ??M, E will increases by ??E = ??M c^2 ), then abs( S ) = will be minimum when M = E / c^2, because abs( S ) = root( M^2 + E^2 / c^4 ).
Iori Fujita